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Anyone done any analysis on what top 100 apps are using Swift? Similar to the cocoapods note, my guess is it's catching on much faster with the long tail than

• tptacek 11y ago
  This seems like it should also be an easy question for SourceDNA to answer.
• NateLawson 11y ago
  Developer behavior is pretty varied along a number of angles. Since even indie apps can hit the top ranks (especially in games), it's a little less useful to talk about apps by rank and instead more by company background. Swift is growing but not huge yet. Certainly there has been a flood of experiment apps in the long tail, where someone used it as a learning exercise. Some of the larger companies are using it for a new project once in a while, but it's certainly been most popular in games. What never ceases to surprise me is the influence a single developer can have, even in a large organization. Someone picks up a tool and then suddenly it's used everywhere in the company.
• supster 11y ago
  Fun fact: Lyft is the only top 100 app I've heard of using Swift [1] http://www.fastcompany.com/3050266/tech-forecast/lyft-goes-swift-how-and-why-it-rewrote-its-app-from-scratch-in-apples-new-lang http://www.fastcompany.com/3050266/tech-forecast/lyft-goes-s... [2] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/17/the-lyft-ios-app-is-now-written-entirely-in-swift/ http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/07/17/the-lyft-ios-app-is...
  • melling 11y ago
    Lyft was completely rewritten in Swift so that was news. Many other companies could be using Swift but it's not really news if 95% of your code is still in ObjC.